Graphic Design 4: How to Remove Red Eye

Removing red eye from a photo.

If you are not already farmilar with this, here we go!

1. Open the image.

2. Go to Image – Duplicate.

3. In Photoshop 6 or earlier, go to View – New View. In Photoshop 7 go to Window – Documents – New Window. This will open a duplicate window of the same image.

4. Zoom one of the windows so that you can see the eyes as large as possible. Set the other window view to 100%.

5. Arrange the two windows so you can see both the zoomed view and the 100% view at the same time.

6. Create a new layer.

7. Use the eyedropper to pick up a color from the iris of the eye. It should be a fairly gray tint with a small portion of the eye color.

8. Paint over the red part of the eye on the new layer, being careful not to paint over the eyelids.

9. Go to Filters – Blur – Gaussian and give it about a 1 pixel blur to soften the edges.

10. Set the layer blend mode to Saturation. This will take the red out without removing the highlights, but in many cases it leaves the eyes too gray and hollow looking.

*Below is where the drop-down menu is located to get to the saturation. It is on the layers tab.

11. If that’s the case, duplicate the saturation layer and change the blend mode to Hue. That should put some color back in while still preserving the highlights.

12. If the color is too strong after adding a Hue layer, lower the opacity of the Hue layer.

13. When you’re happy with the results you can merge the extra layers down.

This should only take you about 5 minutes. If anyone know of a super duper faster way to do this, please comment.

Peace!

Out Reach!

What an incredible day so far! Today the Shine Team and many other volunteers gathered together in the Calvary Gymnaisum. We were celebrating the Back to School Bash! Hundreds of kids were bused in from different neighborhoods. As they made their entrance into the gym, they were welcomed with cheers, screams, and excitement from the Shine Team and Leaders. This particular Outreach event gives kids the opportunity to come to know God if they don’t already have a relationship with Him. The event is full of Praise and Worship, Games, Dancing and just lots of fun with jesus. At the end of the service the kids are equipped with backpacks and supplies and most importantly, Jesus Christ. What an awesome way to start off the school year. This event gets Larger and Larger every year. God is so awesome!

Shout out to Pastor Jennifer and everyone who was involved!

Peace!

Has Anyone Tried This Yet?

Wrigley has introduced a new sugar-free stick gum that is amazing! It is called “5”. Currently there are three flavors that come in this awesome unique black envelope packaging. The flavors include Rain (spearmint flavor), Cobalt (peppermint flavor) and Flare (cinnamon flavor). So far I have tried the Rain and Cobalt and Cobalt is my favorite at the moment. The gum has an incredible long lasting flavor. Usually I spit gum out after about an hour of chewing but not with the new “5”. Its about a $buck forty five and you can get it pretty much anywhere.

Try it out!

Peace!